State v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably 148 W. Va. 398 - State Ex Rel. County Court of Marion County v. Demus (1964), 146 W. Va. 22 - Farley v. Graney (1960)
25 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 121 W. Va. 319 - Chapman v. Huntington, West Virginia, Housing Authority · Poole v. City of Kankakee · Woodall v. Darst · 126 W. Va. 828 - Hayes v. Town of Cedar Grove · Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of Representatives
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is a cardinal rule of construction governing the interpretation of statutes that the purpose for which a statute has been enacted may be resorted to by the courts in ascertaining the legislative intent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.